[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anybody tryed the psx joystick under linux, because i tryed and works
> but when i try to play any emulator the emu goes slow as hell.
> Does anybody knows if this is normal or how do i solve this problem??, and
> xmame doesnt detect it even when i sent the /dev/js1 or /dev/input/js1 in
> command line
> TIA.
I have a DualShock 2 controller working well in Linux. I am using the xmame
i386 joystick driver for Linux. I have a USB adapter that supports both the
PSX controller and the N64 controller. Both worked great pretty much out of
the box with kernel 2.4.6. If the controller wasn't plugged in when you
rebooted, just pull out the USB connection and plug it back in (assuming you
are using a USB adapter). This should reload the appropriate drivers. Also,
I have to set the PSX controller to analog mode before it works (the analog
mode gets turned off when rebooting). I use the following little perl script
to see if the joystick is working:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use FileHandle;
$| = 1;
my $fh = new FileHandle;
print "Trying /dev/js0... ";
$fh->open( "/dev/js0" ) || die "error: $!\n";
$fh->close;
print "done\n";
If you see "Trying /dev/js0... done", then it usually means that everything
is working great (Note: my /dev/js0 is a symlink to /dev/input/js0). Then
all you have to do is configure the joystick in xmame but hitting the <TAB>
key while the emulator is running and mapping the buttons appropriately in
the controller setup menu.
BTW, I think someone here mentioned that when you use the -jdev command line
arg with xmame, don't specify the numbers of the joystick device. In other
words if you want to use /dev/input/js1, use "-jdef /dev/input/js" to tell
xmame to try all the /dev/input/jsN devices to find joysticks. Maybe you did
this already but if you didn't, then that is probably why it didn't work.
- Tom
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